Monday, May 05, 2014

Kimchi Trolling . . .

Over at the Marmot's Hole, I've had another run-in with a troll, one who calls himself "J. Kimchi" and takes ultrasensitive offense at the way I sign off. I had just commented on a post about a subway accident last Friday that occurred on Line 2 at Sangwangsimni Station:

I ride the Green Line (Nr. 2) through Sangwangsimni every working day! Good thing this wasn't a working day for me . . .

Jeffery Hodges

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And I signed off as usual with my name and three asterisks (as you see), which annoyed J. Kimchi no end:

Seriously, I've followed this blog for a year or so.

Why do you write your FULL name as a sign off on EVERY f***ing comment? I give you props if you're trying to induce rage because you're an expert at it.

P.S. Mr. Kimchi, you are either a callow youth or an old fool, but allow me to give you some advice -- though if you are the former, you won't listen, and if you are the latter, the advice will come too late.

Never put yourself in the weak position of admitting that your apparently precarious emotional state depends in some way upon your opponent.

Jeffery Hodges

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No response as of yet, but he'd just type some outrageously trollish remark . . .

6 Comments:

You have to stop spraying whatever asshole-attractant cologne it is that you're wearing. Sometimes I, too, mistakenly spray that cologne on myself right before I go to the movie theater, then I spend two hours listening to the people behind me as they whisper-whisper-whisper during the film. Maddening.

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I am a professor at Ewha Womans University, where I teach composition, research writing, and cultural issues, including the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history.
My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism.
I also work as one-half of a translating team with my wife, and our most significant translation is Yi Kwang-su's novel The Soil, which was funded by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
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